Pro League preview: Home team members anticipating a victory when Club Brugge host Beerschot-Wilrijk

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 22.August
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Jan Breydelstadion (29975 seats)

Club Brugge battle Beerschot-Wilrijk, who have the fewest scored goals (2) in Pro League, for praise and triumph.

Insights:
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest scored goals (2) in Pro League

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Club Brugge form and stats

Club Brugge are yet to win a home game, having collected 2 points from their first two Pro League games here at Jan Breydelstadion. Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.

Happy days for Brugge in their previous game, a Pro League match away at Zulte-Waregem (placed 14th) that ended with a 4-0 victory. The attacker Charles De Ketelaere was "man of the match" for Club Brugge with a rating of 9.03/10. Ketelaere scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, signed up for two assists, hit five key passes and dribled passed the opponent 2 of 4 times. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Brugge played a great game against Zulte-Waregem and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Union Saint-Gilloise.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Club Brugge at home in the league. 3 on target and 3 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.

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Beerschot-Wilrijk form and stats

The visitors settled for one point in their first Pro League away game of the season. During their previous season 17 away games resulted in 7 wins, 1 draw and 9 defeats.

Beerschot-Wilrijk have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 193 minutes ago. M. Noubissi was the goal scorer.

The manager P. Maes was unhappy after their last game, a Pro League match played at their home ground Olympisch Stadion. Beerschot-Wilrijk suffered a 0-1 loss to Standard Liege (placed 7th). Stipe Radić was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.43. The defender Radić hit one key pass and won 7 of 13 duels.

Preceding that, the 0-3 home loss versus Union Saint-Gilloise.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Beerschot-Wilrijk has managed 2 goals and let in 2 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Club Brugge one win, two draws and Beerschot-Wilrijk one victory. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Club BruggeR. Vormer
R. Vormer
2 goals
Club BruggeC. De Ketelaere
C. De Ketelaere
2 goals
Club BruggeE. Sobol
E. Sobol
1 goals

Club Brugge missing players

Beerschot-Wilrijk missing players

Club Brugge Beerschot-Wilrijk
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
4 2 0 Played P 0 1 4
2 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
2 2 0 Drew D 0 1 1
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 3
8 3 0 Scored S 0 2 2
3 3 0 Conceded C 0 2 7
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
75% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 50%
50% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 50%
50% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 100% 25%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 25%
50% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 75%
 
7.8 8.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 8 7
2 1.5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 7 4
2.5 2.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 1.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
16 16 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7 6.2
7 8 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 5 1.8
29% 19% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 40% 29%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest scored goals (2) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk is in the worst form (0-1-3)
Club Brugge Last season Beerschot-Wilrijk
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
40 20   Played P   17 34
25 13   Won W   7 14
7 2   Drew D   1 5
8 5   Lost L   9 15
81 39   Scored S   26 58
37 20   Conceded C   35 64
95% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 97%
82% 75%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   82% 85%
70% 70%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   76% 76%
28% 30%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   41% 38%
12% 15%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   24% 24%
50% 50%   BTTS BTTS   65% 71%
38% 30%   Clean Sheets C S   18% 12%
18% 20%   Failed to Score F T   18% 21%
 
6.2 6.8   Corners for (avg) C F   3.9 4.4
3.3 2.9   Corners against (avg) C A   6.4 6.2
1.4 1.1   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.6 1.9
2 2   Red cards R C   1 1
 
10.2 10.2   Shots (avg) S (   6.6 7.5
4.6 4.2   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.4 3.8
44% 47%   Goal Efficiency G E   45% 45%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Union Saint-Gilloise 4 3 0 1 8 2 2 1 0 1 2 1 2 2 0 0 6 1 6 9
2 KV Oostende 4 3 0 1 8 8 2 1 0 1 1 3 2 2 0 0 7 5 0 9
3 Club Brugge 4 2 2 0 8 3 2 0 2 0 3 3 2 2 0 0 5 0 5 8
4 AS Eupen 4 2 2 0 8 5 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 1 1 0 5 3 3 8
5 Genk 4 2 1 1 10 6 2 1 0 1 7 4 2 1 1 0 3 2 4 7
6 Anderlecht 4 2 1 1 7 5 2 1 0 1 4 3 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 7
7 Standard Liege 4 2 1 1 6 7 2 0 1 1 3 6 2 2 0 0 3 1 -1 7
8 Sporting Charleroi 4 1 3 0 5 2 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 4 1 3 6
9 Kortrijk 4 2 0 2 4 4 2 1 0 1 3 2 2 1 0 1 1 2 0 6
10 Cercle Brugge 4 1 2 1 4 4 2 0 1 1 2 3 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 5
11 Antwerp 4 1 1 2 8 7 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 1 1 1 8 6 1 4
12 Gent 4 1 1 2 5 5 2 1 1 0 4 2 2 0 0 2 1 3 0 4
13 Sint-Truiden 4 1 1 2 4 6 2 1 0 1 3 4 2 0 1 1 1 2 -2 4
14 Zulte-Waregem 4 1 1 2 5 8 2 0 0 2 1 6 2 1 1 0 4 2 -3 4
15 Mechelen 4 1 0 3 4 8 2 1 0 1 4 5 2 0 0 2 0 3 -4 3
16 OH Leuven 4 0 3 1 3 7 2 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 1 5 -4 3
17 RFC Seraing 4 1 0 3 3 8 2 1 0 1 3 3 2 0 0 2 0 5 -5 3
18 Beerschot-Wilrijk 4 0 1 3 2 7 3 0 0 3 0 5 1 0 1 0 2 2 -5 1
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Club Brugge 6 1 3 2 8 11 3 1 1 1 5 5 3 0 2 1 3 6 -3 44
2 Genk 6 5 1 0 15 5 3 2 1 0 8 1 3 3 0 0 7 4 10 44
3 Antwerp 6 1 2 3 6 11 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 0 1 2 3 8 -5 35
4 Anderlecht 6 0 4 2 9 11 3 0 2 1 6 7 3 0 2 1 3 4 -2 33

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The First Division A is the top league of the football pyramid in Belgium, founded in 1895. It was earlier known as the Belgian Pro League. The season runs from July to May with 16 teams each playing 30 fixtures. The top six in the league table then play a championship playoff, the bottom team is relegated and places #7 to #15 have a Europa League playoff.